Vintage race car number circles?

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dieselstation

Discussion Starter · Sep 25, 2009

Can i see some miatas with "racing circles" or "number circles"? I'm not sure what they're called officially. They're mostly found on old race cars.

like this

Anyways.. I kinda wanna put one on mine too. without the numbers though. just the circle. But i've got a white miata so obviously a white circle would do no good. Would a red circle be too crazy? it would look like a japanese flag. lol!

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hoss

· #2 · Sep 25, 2009

do you have an accent color to your car? a color you pick to use as a theme for it? like in the interior or engine bay or something?

if so i'd try that color, but what ever it is it needs to be a bold color. red might work

dieselstation

Discussion Starter · #3 · Sep 25, 2009

hehe.. my accent color is um.. camouflage.

revlimiter

· #4 · Sep 25, 2009

They're called meatballs. And they're almost always white. On white cars they usually have a black outline.

smaeda

· #5 · Sep 25, 2009 (Edited)

they are called meat balls or roundells. Here is mine.

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Greg G

· #6 · Sep 25, 2009

Roundels

smaeda

· #7 · Sep 25, 2009

I also think red ones on a white car would be bad ass. Honda used to do that with their formula cars.

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s0verybored211

· #8 · Sep 25, 2009

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dieselstation

Discussion Starter · #9 · Sep 25, 2009

smaeda said:
they are called meat balls or roundells. Here is mine.

i'm really digging that position. either that or move it forward more. hmm.. decisions.

nannerpus

· #10 · Sep 26, 2009

smaeda said:
I also think red ones on a white car would be bad ass. Honda used to do that with their formula cars.

That's Japan's racing scheme, and a Japanese military scheme before that. It's more of a rising sun emblem than a meatball.

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TheJollieRoger

· #11 · Sep 26, 2009

<3 meatballs

NAautoxer

· #12 · Sep 26, 2009

i am in the same situation.. my cars' theme is blue, but i really don't want to put huge blue roundels on the side of my car. i dunno..

don't want to do red though. red/white/blue is too patriotic.

revlimiter

· #13 · Sep 26, 2009

red/white/blue is the ONE thing that kept me from putting a red interior in my car. Far too patriotic...

Red meatballs with white numbers might be hot.

smaeda

· #14 · Sep 26, 2009

they are cheap as hell to do too. I say go for it. I paid 10 bucks for my magnetic ones.

TheJollieRoger

· #15 · Sep 26, 2009

Magnetic? How/where did you get them made?

aarrow

· #16 · Sep 26, 2009

your local SIGNS shop can make them.

Sin-Tek

· #17 · Sep 26, 2009

Any sign shop should be able to make them for you. $10 sounds really cheep, thats a hell of a deal. I was debating on making a meatball for my car or my other idea i have been thinking about is making a magnetic that looks like the standard 6xx series number you get at an auto-X and printing it so it looks like its taped on with blue painters tape.

TheJollieRoger

· #18 · Sep 26, 2009

Vinyl I figured but I didn't know they could do magnets as well.

smaeda

· #19 · Sep 26, 2009

yep magnetic vinyl at your local sign shop.

the blue potato

· #20 · Sep 26, 2009

I made a few - I think I settled on 15" ones:

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